Christopher "Kip'' Bergstrom, Governor Dannel P. Malloy's nominee to run the state's culture and tourism office, is passionate about developments in Stamford - the city where he met Malloy.

In an article in Stamford Magazine, Bergstrom sounded off about the non-expansion of the University of Connecticut campus in downtown Stamford. UConn took over the former Bloomingdale's store on a busy corner north of downtown and has been there ever since. The school, though, has not expanded, and that was the topic of the article in Stamford Magazine.

Some excerpts are as follows:

"It's appalling," says Kip Bergstrom, head of Stamford's Urban Redevelopment Commission. "It should have expanded a long time ago." In 1998, when Bergstrom was director of economic development here, UConn Stamford was finally moving from its old location on Scofieldtown Road into the former Bloomingdale's on Broad Street, a space that had been vacant since 1990. Everything looked good. Then Bergstrom moved to work in Rhode Island.

"When I came back ten years later, it was basically the same footprint, the same size, the same enrollment that it was. That's absurd, and a major missed opportunity. And it's the result of active resistance by the folks in Storrs against expansion, because they see it as a zero-sum game, which is totally foolish. The faculty and administrators based in Storrs think that anything that happens outside of Storrs is at their expense."

Later in the magazine article, Bergstrom talks about the different UConn branches around the state.

"Not all branches are created equal," he grumbles. "You can't think of Stamford as a feeder to Storrs. In fact, it should go the other way around. This is the business center, not Storrs, not Hartford. New York metro is the major business engine of the U.S. economy. When you have a portal here, why would you not want to expand that?

"You can tell from the sound of my voice that it's moved beyond frustration to white-hot anger," he adds. "I hear it from every single business leader I talk to, every community leader, every economic sector, every political persuasion, ethnicity and faith."